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Facebook moves ahead toward Internet drone air fleet and virtual reality tech
Virtual reality, artificial intelligence and drones will enable Facebook Inc to create a more lifelike and useful social network, the company said in its...
Facebook talks up need for virtual reality, big tech bets
Virtual reality, artificial intelligence and drones will enable Facebook Inc to create a more lifelike and useful social network, the company said in its...
Up Periscope! Twitter launches live streaming app to combat Meerkat
Twitter has launched a new app called Periscope which enables users to broadcast live video to their followers using the camera on their smartphone. The...
YouTube killer? New company hopes you’ll pay to watch clips online
Would you pay to see some of the Internet’s best video clips first? Vessel, a new service trying to change the way that short video pieces make money...
Apple’s TV service will likely be much more important than everyone thinks
For years, pundits have predicted the death of traditional TV, and company after company has offered alternatives to the big “bundles” of networks...
Propaganda war: Russia has a new use for YouTube
The Russian government is hiring communications experts to produce slick YouTube videos with patriotic slogans and anti-American diatribes and scorn heaped...
Pandora’s box is open: Streaming revenue edges out CDs in U.S. for first time
Streaming has topped CD sales in revenue for the first time in the United States as music listeners flock to on-demand services and Internet radio, industry...
Round-the-world solar plane starts next leg after escaping red tape tangle
Solar Impulse 2 has reportedly taken off on the next leg of its epic bid to become the first plane to fly around the world powered solely by the sun -...
Google X boss says company should have curbed Glass hype
Google Inc. was wrong to let expectations about its Glass wearable gadget get overheated, the head of the Google X research lab said on Tuesday. The...
In the headlines: Young people still consuming news, but in new ways
A survey on news consumption habits of young adults shows they are still consuming the latest headlines – just not in the traditional way.
Apple in talks to launch online TV service later this year?
Apple Inc’s much-hinted-at TV service may soon become a reality as the iPhone maker is in talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle of...
How IS succeeds on social media where #StopKony fails
A multitude of sites now actively try to make their material go “viral,” but most attempts fail because it’s almost impossible to predict...
Buttocks slashed but breasts sanctioned in Facebook clean-up
Facebook has created a new rule book that tells users the sort of content they can and can’t post, including a ban on images of buttocks. The...
No butts about it: Facebook updates its guidelines on what permitted
Facebook has created a new rule book that tells users the sort of content they can and can’t post, including a ban on images of buttocks. The...
Like: Facebook becomes a buttocks-free zone but breasts still permitted
Facebook has created a new rule book that tells users the sort of content they can and can’t post, including a ban on images of buttocks. The...
Meerkat CEO: We will build our own social network
Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sat down with Yahoo Tech’s David Pogue during South by Southwest in a Yahoo TechMix interview and came across as magnanimous...
Beating the logjam: Britain’s first ‘poo bus’ to begin passenger service
Britain’s first “poo bus”, which runs entirely on gas generated by human and food waste, is to go into regular service later this month.
Blackberry’s new secure tablet is basically a Samsung
Seeking to extend its range of secure mobile devices, BlackBerry Ltd said is launching a high-security tablet, developed with International Business Machines...
Beat that for security: Bank to trial heart pattern to replace pin numbers
Customers at UK branches of the Halifax bank could soon be able to prove their identities online using their heartbeat, rather than a password. A...
New watch proves Apple ‘understands fashion’
The much anticipated Apple Watch unveiled in San Francisco yesterday is already earning points with reviewers who praise not only its tech abilities, but...
Microsoft warns Windows PCs users that the ‘Freaks’ are out to get them too
Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks from the recently uncovered “Freak” security vulnerability, which was initially...
Microsoft warns Windows PCs also vulnerable to ‘Freak’ attacks
Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the recently uncovered “Freak” security vulnerability, which...
Silicon Valley debate on self-driving cars: do you need a map?
The Silicon Valley race to build a self-driving car may revolve around one simple question: to map or not to map. The company at the forefront of the...
British ‘hacker’ held in connection with cyber-attack on U.S. DoD
A British man has been arrested in connection with an alleged cyber attack on the U.S.
Hack attack: People ignoring threats to their mobile phones, warn experts
The boom in smartphones among often careless users has made happy hunting for hackers, whose virus attacks and hijacking of unprotected mobiles are multiplying,...
Hackers threaten mobile phone in your pocket, experts warn
The boom in smartphones among often careless users has made happy hunting for hackers, whose virus attacks and hijacking of unprotected mobiles are multiplying,...
You found my battleship: Paul Allen’s unlikely hit
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he has found one of Japan’s biggest and most famous battleships on a Philippine seabed, some 70 years after...
Online retail sites hosting ‘thousands’ of illegal animal product trades in China
A survey of 15 Chinese retail websites over a two-year period has revealed a booming trade in illegal wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn and...
Google confirms plans to launch its own wireless service
Google’s long rumoured move to becoming a wireless carrier took one step closer to reality on Monday.
Microsoft unveils new smartphones with Free Office and Windows 10
Microsoft has announced two new mid-range smartphones, both of which will work with Windows 10 when it launches later in the year, and come with Microsoft...
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